Month: December 2017

ARCADIA, Calif. — Midnight Crossing proved impossible to catch in Saturday’s Grade 3 Robert Frankel Stakes for fillies and mares on turf at Santa Anita, rewarding jockey Brice Blanc’s decision to put the longshot on an early lead. Allowed to set a slow pace, Midnight Crossing ($47.60) held off a late run from 8-5 favorite

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Elias Pettersson and Lias Andersson each had two goals and an assist and Sweden beat Switzerland 7-2 on Saturday in the world junior hockey championship to wrap up Group B. The United States was off Saturday after beating Canada 4-3 in a shootout Friday in a snowy outdoor game at the Buffalo

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville Predators left wing Filip Forsberg has been placed on injured reserve with an upper-body injury, the team announced Saturday before its home game against the Minnesota Wild. Forsberg had 15:04 of ice time Friday night in a loss in Minnesota. His last shift ended with 8:40 remaining in the third period.

Roy Jones Jr., one of boxing’s all-time greats, is going home to say goodbye to the ring. Jones has announced that he will fight what he claims will be his final fight, a cruiserweight bout against an opponent to be determined, on Feb. 8 at the Pensacola Bay Center in his hometown of Pensacola, Florida.

Naoya “Monster” Inoue easily retained his junior bantamweight world title in a third-round demolition of Yoan Boyeaux on Saturday at the Bunka Gym in Yokohama, Japan. Inoue retained his 115-pound belt for the seventh time in a one-sided destruction as he knocked Boyeaux down four times overall to record a lopsided victory that probably will

Manchester United were forced to split the points after finishing in a scoreless deadlock with Southampton. Manchester United were forced to split the points after finishing in a scoreless deadlock with Southampton. Following Jose Mourinho’s claims that United need to spend more, Mark Ogden agrees that more money needs to be spent before they can

Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson became just the third player in FBS history to have at least 50 rushing and 50 passing touchdowns in his career during Saturday’s Taxslayer Bowl against Mississippi State. He joined former Florida and Nevada quarterbacks Tim Tebow and Colin Kaepernick as the only others to accomplish that feat. Louisville QB Lamar

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Serena Williams lost on her return to competitive tennis after giving birth, going down to French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in an exhibition in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday. “I don’t think I am going to rate my performance,” Williams said. “I have plenty of comebacks, from injuries,

SALT LAKE CITY — LeBron James will spend his 33rd birthday on Saturday playing on the road against the Utah Jazz — a place where his teams have lost their past six games. “I need a win here. I suck here,” James said before the Cleveland Cavaliers‘ morning shootaround Saturday. “I personally don’t suck, but

Every Saturday. hot topics around the New England Patriots are explored in the form of a mailbag. What’s your sense oh how Harrison will be used against Jets & how well he’ll do? https://t.co/3MjG8KJs3q — I-See-Clowns 🤡🤡🤡 (@jrterrier5) December 29, 2017 Similar to when the Patriots had Eric Lee active in the week after he

One of the most anticipated match-ups of the South Africa-India series is between Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers. They are the superstars of their respective sides, team-mates at the Royal Challengers Bangalore and great mates off the field but Kohli confirmed that once they step over the white line, their cosiness will replaced by

British & Irish Lions captain Sam Warburton described receiving an OBE as “the pinnacle” of his career after being recognised in the New Year Honours. Welshman Warburton, 29, led the Lions on their last two tours, including the drawn Test series against world champions New Zealand during the summer. The Cardiff Blues flanker — currently

Six-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic‘s hopes of playing in Melbourne in two weeks have taken another hit after he withdrew from next week’s Qatar Open due to an ongoing elbow injury. The Serbian has been sidelined for the last six months due to the injury and pulled out of an exhibition match in Abu

The ESPN FC crew discuss Angel Di Maria and whether he’d fit in at Barcelona. On a frantic deadline day in the offices at Camp Nou at the beginning of September, Barcelona tried to thrash out a midnight deal for Paris Saint-Germain’s Angel Di Maria. With Neymar gone, they needed reinforcements. Ousmane Dembele had arrived from Borussia

Dec 30, 2017 Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Jake LaMotta, who died earlier this year aged 95, had a headache before New Year’s Eve 1952 was over after he was knocked off

PERTH, Australia — Jack Sock and CoCo Vandeweghe gave the United States a perfect start at the mixed team Hopman Cup event by winning their singles matches in the opening tie against Russia on Saturday. Sock, ranked No. 8 in the world, needed three sets to subdue No. 45 Karen Khachanov, eventually claiming a 6-4,